Proverbs 11:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

[ As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a fair woman that is without discretion.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נֶ֣זֶם זָ֭הָב בְּאַ֣ף חֲזִ֑יר אִשָּׁ֥ה יָ֝פָ֗ה וְסָ֣רַת טָֽעַם׃

Transliteration

Nezem zāhāb bəʾap ḥăzîr ʾiššâ yāpâ wəsārat ṭāʿam.

Grammar Details

• *Nezem*: masculine singular noun - ring/nose-ring
• *zāhāb*: masculine singular noun - gold
• *bəʾap*: preposition + masculine singular construct noun - in snout of
• *ḥăzîr*: masculine singular noun - pig/swine
• *ʾiššâ*: feminine singular noun - woman
• *yāpâ*: feminine singular adjective - beautiful
• *wəsārat*: conjunction + feminine singular adjective construct - and turning aside from
• *ṭāʿam*: masculine singular noun - discretion/good sense

Word Meanings

• *Nezem*: ring/nose-ring/ornament
• *zāhāb*: gold
• *ʾap*: nose/nostrils/face/snout
• *ḥăzîr*: pig/swine
• *ʾiššâ*: woman/wife
• *yāpâ*: beautiful/fair/lovely
• *sārat*: turning aside from/departing from
• *ṭāʿam*: discretion/good sense/judgment/taste

Referenced Verses

• Prov 31:30 : 30 Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.
• Ezek 16:15-22 : 15 But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was. 16 And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places decked with divers colors, and playedst the harlot upon them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]. 17 Thou didst also take thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest for thee images of men, and didst play the harlot with them; 18 and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst set mine oil and mine incense before them. 19 My bread also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set it before them for a sweet savor; and [thus] it was, saith the Lord Jehovah. 20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter, 21 that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] unto them? 22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast weltering in thy blood.
• Nah 3:4-6 : 4 because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. 5 Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. 6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
• 1 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel; 4 but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
• Gen 24:47 : 47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.
• Prov 7:10 : 10 And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
• Prov 9:13 : 13 The foolish woman is clamorous; [She is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
• 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 {G1161} It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.